Famous Quotes & Sayings

Charles Osgood

We accentuate the positive and don't try to shock. I think there's a growing appetite for that. We're surrounded by shock.

J. M. Roberts

Librarians are an essential and vital bridge to the reader, ... As book lovers, librarians introduce readers to books every day. I think it's essential that librarians accentuate reading for pleasure and have a solid understanding, respect, even affection for popular fiction.

Kerry Zavagnin

I think we have good players. At the end of the day that's usually what gets it done. We have been put into a system that tries to accentuate our strengths. I think, compared to the other teams in the league, we have gotten off to a head start just by the mere fact that we have good players here.

Ned Colletti

I think adding Brett is a huge plus. He gives us four starters capable of going 180 to 210 innings. He's won a lot of games. We have a staff that will accentuate his strengths. I think he has more upside than he's shown.

Jerry Taylor

Renewable power mandates merely accentuate the inefficiency and cost premiums attached to so-called renewable power sources. If renewable power saved consumers money, created jobs, or carried any of the other economic benefits so frequently claimed by environmental activists, then government would not have to pass a law to force power companies to purchase it or consumers to buy it.

Nimrat Kaur

I opt for clothes that complement my body type. I am not someone who will go for something just because it is trendy and not look good on me. I would choose clothes which are comfortable and accentuate my body type.

Mike Love

I think my philosophy in music has been to accentuate the positive.

Casey Kasem

I just felt it was my job to show that there is no easy way to success, and that anyone who gets even just one Top 40 hit deserves their moment in the sun. I accentuate the positive and eliminate the negative. That is the timeless thing.

Becky G

My main focus when I do my makeup is my eyes - I accentuate my eyes, and they look bigger. More 'va va voom,' I guess you can say.

Jack Greenberg

We want the line -- which for McDonald's includes our divisional and regional staffs, owner/operators and restaurant personnel -- to make decisions on behalf of customers based on field operating needs. The line ultimately has responsibility and accountability for our business success,

Mitt Romney

Ultimately, legislation may need to be filed to provide an exemption based on religious principles.

Amanda Tobin

The possible pressurization issues that we've had recently do represent an above-average number for this time period, based on historical averages.

Ginny Goblirsch

We are always so happy to see them. It is such a reminder of what the US Coast Guard brings to our community. It's also a reminder of what it took to get the helicopter based here and how critical it is that it remains here.

Bob Cornick

We value this honor more than designations based on research that simply tries to count shipments and measure market share. Our customers trust Zebra to help them extract the business benefits from RFID technology, and we are pleased that ABI has recognized our commitment.

Adam Ereli

We believe that these convictions are based on evidence that isn't credible and a trial that isn't fair,

Mike Clarke

We still plan to have the appraisal done and try to keep discussions open with them and at the appropriate time, based on the appraisal, try to initiate, once again, negotiations.

Frank Newport

We're in a period of time that there is a conventional wisdom that Bush is on the ropes. I think, based on my experience, that the media tend to move in lockstep as conventional wisdom on a story develops.

Bernie Schaeffer

We're in a frenetic short-covering based rally. The jury is still out about how long this is going to last.

Dave Ramsey

You have the clean canvas of a whole week before you. Paint well.

Kurt Koeppen

Nick performed on a canvas in the sky.

Dwayne Hickman

The print on canvas is the closest to the original work. I personally sign them as well.

Anne Stevenson

I don't like poetry that just slaps violent words on a canvas, as it were.

Linda Lavin

Once you have the pattern of life of this person, the choreography, so to speak, you have the canvas that you present eight times a week, not without feeling underneath it, but it's not as churning as the discovery process was.

Tom Yawkey

Some men like to go in for polo, for example, and spend thousands of dollars on ponies. Some go nuts for paintings, and give half a million for a hunk of canvas in a fancy frame. But my passion is baseball.

Henry David Thoreau

This world is but a canvas to our imaginations.

Elie Wiesel

Writing is not like painting where you add. It is not what you put on the canvas that the reader sees. Writing is more like a sculpture where you remove, you eliminate in order to make the work visible. Even those pages you remove somehow remain.

Geoff Johns

The ocean is 90% unexplored. It's a great canvas to paint Aquaman stories across, just like Green Lantern has space. It's more organic, which makes it different and interesting. It's alien, but it's terrestrial.

Bill Jenkins

We want to take the components and plug them into best-of-breed solutions, such as ratings engines. And whatever we choose has to be scalable, because, like other companies, we look at acquisitions as a viable way to grow.

Joseph Carroll

The perfect home is your home ... whatever it is and however you choose to make it so. You are surrounded by the things you like ... things that make you comfortable. It's as simple as that.

McKayla Maroney

For our team leotards, we get about ten to choose from to actually compete in at the Olympics.

Gretchen Rubin

I embrace treats, but I'm also very wary of treats. Treats help us feel energized, appreciated, and enthusiastic - but very often, the things we choose as 'treats' aren't good for us. The pleasure lasts a minute, but then feelings of guilt, loss of control, and other negative consequences just deepen the lousiness of the day.

Dan Mclaughlin

What the Senate did today is choose partisan politics over the people and the senior citizens.

Nitin Gupta

We want people to kind of help us choose what to listen to. This device kind of fills that role.

Mbhazima Shilowa

We want our townships to be places in which people take pride, where people live, not because they have no alternative, but because they choose to live there.

Jamie Pollard

We want kids that want to be here. If they choose that they want to be at another place, then that's better for them, and that's better for us. We made the decision a long time ago that we're running a marathon, we're not running a sprint.

Liu Bolin

Each one chooses his or her path to come in contact with the external world. I chose to merge with the environment.

Todd Phillips

When I'm writing, I'm writing for a particular actor. When a lot of writers are writing, they're writing an idea. So they're not really writing in a specific voice.

Michael Robinet

When the new vehicles arrive, you don't want too many of the old ones on the lot. I see this as a specific case, not a wide-ranging trend.

Elizabeth Dole

Today I am not going to get into the specifics of the legislation.

Scott Aker

We haven't set it as a specific goal.

Chris Benz

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

Bob Hamilton

We?re still proceeding at best-possible speed and we?re still trying to get the specifics on the street.

Sara Zarr

Readers want a story, not a pattern. It's the specifics of a story that make it really ping our various reader radars.

Gustavo Torres

We are going to target them in a specific way.

Brendan Coyle

By the time you've been single for quite a long time, you can get quite specific about what you can and can't put up with.